by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch that Turkey’s post-coup detainees prefer not to talk about bruises, stemmed from torture, on their body as they fear from further persecution in prison. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
An Istanbul-based lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that police officers tortured her two clients by squeezing their testicles and forcing to undress them, another indication of reemergence of most cruel torture methods in Turkish prisons. In a 43-page report, “A...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A high-ranking officer, suspected of involvement in the failed coup, told a judge that he was severely beaten while under custody at the Ankara police headquarters and showed him a large bruise on his body. Yet, court transcript of his testimony left out details of...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
“I don’t know how many times they hit my client. I couldn’t look at it anymore. …I would normally refuse to sign an interrogation report given under such conditions, or would make a note of the conditions on the report, but that I was too afraid to do either,” a...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 26, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
“Police officer banged my client’s head on the floor, causing marks and bruises on his head. When I complaint about ill-treatment, the police said it would be very easy for him to have me arrested for being a member of the Gülen movement as well,” a lawyer told Human...
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